Horse-boot



(No Model.)

J. DUFFY. HORSE BOOT.

No. 528,249. Patented ont. 30, 1894,

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JOSEPH DUFFY, OFl TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

HORSE-Boor.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 528,249, dated October 30,1894.

Application iiled January 4, 1894. Serial No. 195,658.v (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOSEPH DUFFY, resid` ing at Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Horse-Boot, known as a Scalper, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to improvements in a scalping boot for wet and muddy Weather and for jogging horses, by afxing to the leather, felt or other substance of the boot an oval or other properly shaped piece of metal or other non-Wearing substance, by

means of rivets or other secure fastening; and the objects of my improvements are, rst, it protects the toe of the hind foot and prevents the leather, felt or other substance of the boot at the toe from wearing away, by the metal or other non-Wearing substance that is fastened tothe boot receiving the blow from the front foot; second. the oval or other properly shaped metal or other non-Wearing substance fastened to the boot allows the size of the leather, felt or other substancein the boot to be reduced as it holds the leather, felt or othersubstance upright and rmly in its position; third, the boot being reduced in size and fitted snugly to the foot prevents the accumulation of sand and dirt between the hoof and boot; fourth,rthe spur of the boot being at the toe, sand and dirt cannot, at that point work up between the boot and hoof; and, fifth, it is much more easily fastened to the foot. I attain these4 objects by making the boot as follows, illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

- Figure l is a side view of the scalper cornplete. Fig. 2.is a front View of the scalper with the straps broken off. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the scalper on the line A. B. in Fig. 2.

Similar numbers refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

lis made of leather, felt or othersubstance as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

2 is an oval or other properly shaped piece of metal or other non-wearing substance, and fastened to the leather, felt or other substance 1 by means of rivets or other secure fastenings at the points 3.

of 6. up and around the toe of .the foot on thev line A. B in Fig. 2 and is made for the purpose of receiving the blow from the front foot and prevents thefleather, &c.', of 1 from Wearing away at that point.

I am aware that horse boots made of leather or other iiexible substance and attached to the hoof by means of straps and spurs have been in'use prior to my invention. Iain also aware that a combination of leather and metal for use as a bandage in the case of cracked hoofs has been patented. The metal covering in the patent bandage is not designed as a wear plate and is entirely useless on a horse boot for track purposes. In my improved boot the Wear plate is light covering only the more exposed parts of the boots and having its lower part extended so as to form the spur, thus making the boot stronger and of fewer parts.

' In view of the above I do not claim broadly vthe combination in a horse boot of leather or other flexible substance and sheet metal covering, but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

In a horse boot the combination with a leather or other flexible shield of a wear plate fixed thereto and aspur forming an integral part of said plate adapted to be inserted between the hoof'\and shoe, substantially as set forth. Y

JOSEPH DUFFY.

Witnesses: l

JNO. L. PATTERSON, T. A. NANTZ.. 

